Because You’re Not Fooling Anyone: Why Trump Travel Ban 2.0 Still Unconstitutional
Trump’s second attempt at banning travel from certain Muslim-majority countries is clearly written to avoid…
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Religious Right Reax to SCOTUS: “A Spiritual 9/11”
Reactions from conservatives (and those courting their votes) range from angry to apoplectic. With a strong dose of the ridiculous.
Read MoreWiccan Prayer in Iowa House Highlights Religious Freedom Problem
Can we be inclusive if we exclude the exclusive?
Read MoreIt’s Not “Inappropriate” for Public School Teacher to Tell Class that Obama Isn’t Christian
Last week a story broke about a middle-school teacher in Dublin, Georgia, sharing an “inappropriate…
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After Early Christian Opposition, Iceland Gets First Pagan Temple in Nearly 1000 Years
This month an Icelandic Pagan organization called the Ásatrúarfélag (roughly translated,* “the fellowship of those who…
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The Fourth of July Is Not America’s Birthday
No, in July of 2014 we don’t face the urgent threat of an established church, but we do face an ongoing struggle with those abusing freedom of religion.
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America Does Not Have a Religious Identity
A new book by a Constitutional scholar argues that the founding document does not protect religion—it protects religious freedom.
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Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment
Ralph Reed is doing a kind of constitutional drag performance for the press, dressing his religious values in secular sequins and pearls, but we all know what’s beneath the costume, right?
Read MoreObama Inaugural Address Challenges Tea Party History
It’s Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall vs. conquest and exceptionalism.
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Not God’s Army: The Front Lines of the Fight Against Proselytizing in the U.S. Military
Our job is to keep separate the spiritual and temporal, church-state, metaphysical and physical where all the nuclear weapons are. We’re doing this in the technologically most lethal organization ever created by humankind—our U.S. military.
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